17. Harbour Ferry Ride

There are plenty of stalls and tourist stands offering trips round the Sydney harbour. I’m sure that there is some good chat given to you on the way round but they charge in excess of $20 for the pleasure. A better idea is to get up early one day with a plan in mind and buy a “Day Tripper” ticket which allows you unlimited travel on all of Sydney’s buses, ferries and trains.

After you’ve taken a couple of return trips the ticket as paid for itself. We had spent some of the day flat hunting with one of these tickets and about 5pm decided we’d had enough but didn’t think that we’d got our money’s worth out of the ticket so we jumped on the ferry and took a round trip round the harbour.

It was suppose to be about 30 minutes all in but they had combined 2 ferry services into one and we spent about an hour and a half visiting various wharfs in the area. No commentary but a good way to get an idea of the extent of all the local estuaries and their location.